my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

The cats let me sleep in late today but also woke me up three times throughout the night wrestling over who got to sleep behind my knees

SCROOGE: you there, boy! what day is it? BOY: i don't know, i'm like six SCROOGE: well fuckin – can you ask someone

it took me a minute to put together that she’s being homophobic, not making a genuinely helpful suggestion about birth control

I hate that when AI is wrong people are like "But isn't it amazing that it thinks it's right?" but when I fuck up my taxes it's "a crime." Hypocrisy much?

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

FINALLY getting the respect i deserve for all my butt tweets thank so much

Have FSA funds that are expiring at the end of the year? Consider using them to buy menstrual pads for Astoria Food Pantry (or other items for your local mutual aid group)!

You can use your FSA to buy allergy meds, wound care supplies, TENS units, massage guns … find out your balance and HELP SOMEBODY IN NEED

Jo meets Jo

Getting emotional during the opening credits of Little Women (1994) as is right and good

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

Over on tumblr someone posted this in response to the same observation.

Sorry to make everything about FNL but JD McCoy’s dad’s casting in One Battle After Another is just perfect

hmm…i’m hungry. i could eat something, plenty of food in the house. or i could make it everybody’s fucking problem

Two workers who make Pennsylvania’s minimum wage would each have to work 96 hours per week to afford the area’s median asking rent.

the thing about cats is that they are smart enough to get themselves into places they’re not supposed to be but not smart enough to get themselves out again

inventing a service where, for a small monthly fee, you can ask a chatbot any of your questions. and then on the other end it’s me, lying my ass off

It cracks me up how much Jonas acts like my late cat Tigger sometimes because Tigger would have despised Jo

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

THERAPIST: It’s normal to go through the stages of grief ERIKA KIRK: Get on stages for my grief? THERAPIST: No no I sai- ERIKA KIRK: Yeah I’ll take it from here

Phillies photoshops until baseball is back - December 21

our emotional & practical survival over the next year is going to depend on us developing the emotional depth to say "hahaha fuck yeah, shit has gotten so bad that even [terrible person] is trying to save themselves" without being like "so they're not terrible anymore, maybe?"

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Rav 3rd quarter

Your favourite new TV hyperfixation did not magically make everything better - it went out of its way to not show the reality of how bad it really is, *because* that would be upsetting to you and not fit with the conventions of the genre.

At some point I’d like to see actors like McConaughey acting in, you know, movies again

I finally found peppermint ice cream at Acme and it was low fat

talking fondly about the reagan era? of course you are little guy you're 12.

It's your birthday, Duane.

they've all bought 10,000 shares of baby coffin stock

someone threw a little tantrum about this in my mentions earlier and im still kind of annoyed at how entitled people are to demand i stop sincerely expressing my feelings about a political party that is explicitly collaborating with fascists because i will suppress voter turnout by not shutting up

Important snake update:

I am of the opinion if we are bringing back late 19th century and early 20th century economics they should put drugs back in our sodas

My favorite holiday record is “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by Vince Guaraldi. But I’d never seen a photo of him until tonight. I don’t think I was prepared for this!

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Vacation starts NOW

it sucks that some people will fake a disability but it doesn't suck nearly as much as the idea that every disabled person should have to be on-call 24/7 to prove their disability to every miserable self-appointed robocop who sees them in public and thinks "i bet they don't need that wheelchair"

Bring Back Open Hand Slapping

god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion

Have you listened to Barbra’s Jingle Bells yet this season? music.apple.com/us/album/jin...

The renaming wasn’t great but at this point in American history “The Kennedy Center” really should refer to any location where children contract measles.

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying